Cathy Fabisch Email & Phone Number

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Research and post invoices for rail carriers, transload facilities, and railcar maintenance repair. Work with carriers to resolve invoicing issues. Research railcar movements to ensure proper billing rates are applied. Conduct regular audits of outstanding invoices. Research and pay storage, and finance charges. Audit and process rail car lease invoices. Use rail carrier portals to download reports, review pricing details and log disputes.

Buffalo, Mn

2D multi-media visual artist.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Provided systems and accounting assistance post ERP transition from QuickBooks to SAP ByDesign. Duties included data analytics, delinquent invoice processing, bank reconciliations, cash application, customer invoice audits, and training others. Followed up working through the same issues in a transition from SAP ByDesign to NewBOS.

Minnesota, United States

Provided short and long term human resource, accounting, payroll, accounts payable, accounts receivable, financial reporting, executive assistance and operations support to Minneapolis and St Cloud corporations.

Golden Valley, Mn

Provided administrative support to C-suite and other office staff. Booked national and international travel logistics, maintained itineraries and completed expense reports for a number of executives and other office staff. Compose, update and distribute agendas, compile presentations and reports and record and distribute meeting minutes. Coordinated on and off-site meetings, luncheons and dinners, including site selections and coordinating all logistics and planning for both routine and special events including operations meeting, acquisition welcomes, and board meetings. Managed vendors supporting the needs of the corporate office including site security, shredding services, phone/video conferencing and break room services. Updated and maintained two corporate websites and a number of social media sites, posting updates, job openings and investor materials regularly. Managed cell phone plan for U.S. employees. Drafted and distributed newsletters, flyers and posters using Adobe creative software. Answered and screened phone calls, emails, U.S. mail and special deliveries. Maintained strict confidentiality at all times. Assisted IT and HR. Assisted with a variety of special projects including a corporate office move. Held SPHR certification from HRCI for over 10 years (allowed it to lapse in February 2020.)

Buffalo, Mn

Responded to scheduled or on-call requests to stand in for teachers in Kindergarten through High School classrooms in a variety of subjects. Facilitated lesson plans designated by absent teachers. Managed student behavior. Assisted students with lessons, homework, projects or concerns. Completed feedback notes to keep teachers up to date. Maintained attendance records and special education records.

Minneapolis Area

Acted as shared Human Resources Director between Sil-Pro, LLC and Precision Associates, Inc. - separate and unique companies with common ownership but very different cultures, policies, and management teams. Introduced and managed tools and technology to create infrastructure to the support growth of Sil-Pro into a four shift, seven day week operation. Recruited and hired strong human resources, safety and training staff to support increase in employee base and complexity of the operation. Streamlined and managed annual performance review process. Facilitated Sil-Pro’s first employee engagement survey. The subsequent survey 18 months later showed marked improvement in employee engagement with majority of responses above the norm. Actively managed and maintained workers compensation claims. Eliminated long term dependence on staffing agencies resulting in increased retention of production staff and decreased unemployment costs. Implemented and managed HRIS system (ADP WorkForce Now) and applicant tracking system.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Acted as shared Human Resources Director between Precision Associates, Inc.(PAI) and Sil-Pro, LLC. spending part of each week in each location . Successfully defended claims filed with the EEOC and Department of Human Rights, maintained workers comp files and maintained OSHA 300 log. Developed, recommended and implemented updated compensation structure, implemented consistent performance review process. Recruited and hired strong HR staff to manage day to day employee relations, benefits administration, recruiting and other human resources tasks. Introduced updated and compliant PAI employee handbook, Collaborated with supervisors and managers to update production job descriptions to clarify career paths and expectations. Developed and recommended continuous improvement goals to implement best practices, focus on improving and maintaining communication, compliance and employee development in a culturally diverse workforce.

Responsibility for all Human Resources services for multi-state marketing agency (traditional, interactive, sweepstakes and contests, technology and new media) serving Fortune 500 clients. Hands on management of all personnel related activities including employee and labor relations, recruiting and staffing, change management, legal compliance, benefits and compensation administration, performance management and training, workers compensation, OSHA compliance and payroll.

United Kingdom & Germany

Designed and taught training courses on career planning, resume writing, interview techniques and decision-making. Worked with individuals to assess thier strengths and interests to work through career choices and job search strategies.

Master Of Arts - Ma, Human Relations

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Liberal Studies